Thursday, April 14, 2016

Teaching Dante in Core this semester, I decided we'd all had enough with expository papers, so I'm
having my students add their own extra circles to Hell. Once they're written, I
plan to collect them under the title Hell's Hidden Rooms: The Apocryphal
Cantos (though my students prefer Schwartz's Inferno). Here's one I
composed as a pilot.

The Eighth Circle, Twelfth Pouch. The
Pedants, who cannot keep from spitting into their cups.